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descartes1

descartes1 There are many things that have occurred in my life that was questionable. Questionable in a way that doesn't make sense to why of if they even occurred. I often wonder what is the porpoise of my existence or that of anyone else's. A better question would be if I do even exist. There must be some thing out there that can explain everything, but I do not access to that something so I must try to form my own opinions. There is only one thing that I can be certain of, that one thing is that I am thinking being and I do exist somewhere. It is possible that I do not even have a body. It could be possible that I could just be a brain in a jar somewhere that thinks I am still alive. I could have been made to think I have this body and that I am actually here typing down my thoughts in this computer that could possibly not even exist. The reason I think that is because there is no way to prove that I am actually here on earth living among other beings. This could all be a dream or I could actually be in a comma thing that I am still a functional human. Another side could be that how can I prove that I don't exist. How can I deny that this is my body and I am at a real computer typing out me thoughts? How can I deny that I am a twenty-two year old man trying to finish out school and carry on the rest of my life the way I choose to? Although how can I prove that I am even awake at this moment and this is not a dream. However dreams have never been as clear as this reality, usually in a dream I do not have complete control of my actions as I do at this moment. How am I even sure that the things that I have learned through out my life are even true or have I been learning false information. How can I be certain that one plus one equals two, for all know the answer could be three or there could be no such things as numbers. Some higher power could be just running test on me to for their own information, I could be some kind of pet or even a computer program that was written by some higher being that has complete control of our actions. That could be said for everything that I have been programmed or thought to have learned on my own. There has to be some reason that it is harder for me to learn some things then others. Or perhaps its is simply that I am a human beings and that I have my own interests and thoughts. Now that I think about it there is another thing that I can be sure of that is no one can be certain that there is a God or higher power that has created us. Many people have a belief in God and support the theory very passionately. The problem with that belief is that there is no evidence that there is a God. The other side to that argument would be how can I prove that he doesn't exist. How can one explain our existence or even how the world or the universe began to existence. Did the universe just start one day or did something have to create it all. If there was a God I think that the world could be as I perceive it because God should be good and God would not allow me to live a life that is not true. Why do I posses these thoughts? I should not have doubts of my own existence. I should be happy that I do think and an able to live a normal life, but since I have no proof everything is questionable. In order to get rid of these thoughts I posses I need to speak to some one with an infinite knowledge and there must be no doubt it what it tells me. I fear that I will never know that knowledge because that thing would have to be God and I am not ever sure that a God exists. Now that I have given the thought of God and that it must be good I am now having different thoughts on that subject. Or perhaps God is not good and it is some kind of devil figure that is tricking me into thinking that I am this human being with a body witch has sight and is capable of sense. I will never be sure of any of these thoughts until I retain full knowledge of everything. As I sit here typing out my thoughts on my own existence, I still have not come up with a real explanation. I must exist because I am having my own thoughts and I don't think that any one or thing is controlling my thoughts. I just wish that there was some way I could prove this. All I seem to have done is to type out a bunch of questions that no one has the real answer to. One can give an argument that he or she exist by telling me reasons but how would I know that they are telling the truth. That could even be something that is trying to hide the truth for some reason that I may never know. I do know that all I have done here is raise more questions. Bibliography:

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